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Word Meanings - CHITCHAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Familiar or trifling talk; prattle.

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  • FAMILIARLY
    In a familiar manner.
  • TRIFLE
    trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
  • TRIFLORAL; TRIFLOROUS
    Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.
  • TRIFLING
    Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. -- Tri"fling*ness, n.
  • TRIFLER
    One who trifles. Waterland.
  • PRATTLE
    To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk. (more info) Etym:
  • TRIFLUCTUATION
    A concurrence of three waves. "A trifluctuation of evils." Sir T. Browne.
  • FAMILIARITY
    1. The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity. 2. Anything said or done by one person to another
  • FAMILIARIZATION
    The act or process of making familiar; the result of becoming familiar; as, familiarization with scenes of blood.
  • FAMILIARIZE
    1. To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress. 2. To make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; as, to familiarize one's self
  • FAMILIAR
    1. Of or pertaining to a family; domestic. "Familiar feuds." Byron. 2. Closely acquainted or intimate, as a friend or companion; well versed in, as any subject of study; as, familiar with the Scriptures. 3. Characterized by, or exhibiting, the
  • FAMILIARNESS
    Familiarity.
  • FAMILIARY
    Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic. Milton.
  • PRATTLEMENT
    Prattle. Jeffrey.
  • PRATTLER
    One who prattles. Herbert.
  • PRITTLE-PRATTLE
    Empty talk; trifling loquacity; prattle; -- used in contempt or ridicule. Abp. Bramhall.

 

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